SPRING 2008
Release Date: April 2008
ISBN: 978-0-9793049-9-6
Paperback, 88 pp., $12.00 + $2.00 s/h + 6.5% NC Sales Tax
Angels, Thieves, and Winemakers collects over fifty poems about wine from Joseph Mills, the author of Somewhere During the Spin Cycle and co-author of A Guide to North Carolina’s Wineries. The poems range from humorous observations about the industry to meditations on aging. In accessible, yet evocative, language, Mills suggests our relationship with wine can be seen as a metaphor for our lives and relationships with one another.
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Release Date: May 2008
ISBN: 978-0-9816280-0-4
Paperback, approx.185 pps, $14.00 + $2.00 s/h + 6.5% NC Sales Tax
Bees swarm. A president is assassinated. A young mother is electrocuted in her own basement. A space shuttle vanishes. One couple is struck by sudden wealth, another by lightning. An older woman obsesses over a bag boy at the local supermarket. People everywhere watch the sky for signs of intelligent life on Mars and covert Russian space missions. The television era begins, and the Vietnam War ends.
Ranging from the 1950’s to present time, the stories of Springtime on Mars feature characters who grapple with the human extremes of despair and hope, holding faith in both God and science, and in the love and courage of those around them.
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FALL 2008
Release Date: September 2008
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Hardback, appx. 315pp., $29.95 + $2.00 s/h + 6.75% NC Sales Tax
Debut novel set in pre-Katrina New Orleans.
"A rollercoaster ride of a novel...a thrilling, moving novel, and I couldn't put it down." ~ Silas House
"Contemporary writing at its best: clean, hard-edged, mysterious, moving...This novel has the classic lines of Hemingway but the clout of Ian McEwan's Atonement." ~ Sena Jeter Naslund
"Swimmers in the Sea is the best book I've read in several years, and I say that without qualification or reservation." ~ William Cobb
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RiverRun Reader/Story to Screenplay anthology
Release Date: April 2008
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Paperback, appx. 144 pp., $9.95 + $2.00 s/h + 6.5% NC Sales Tax
Press 53 is pleased to announce the 2009 STORY TO SCREENPLAY ADAPTATION COMPETITION, in partnership with RiverRun International Film Festival and Stone's Throw Films. This anthology is the result of a collaborative effort to celebrate story writing and filmmaking by encouraging new voices through competition.
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New stories from IPPY Award-Winning master storyteller Tom Sheehan (Epic Cures, 2006)
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Release Date: November 2008
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Paperback, appx. 250 pp., $18.00 + $2.00 s/h + 6.5% NC Sales Tax
"Our great Western myth is that we are a people predisposed to progress, to forward motion, to action, and it’s true that when we tell our stories, if we’re good at telling our stories, we learn to give our listeners what they’re listening for, what Aristotle called What Happens Next. Action is eloquence, Shakespeare said. And yet so much happens between the action, in the quiet, between our ears, among the Hows and Whys and What Ifs we can articulate, and the Huhs we can’t. Here we must consult our great philosopher from Alabama, one Charles Barkley: If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas.
Indeed. And don’t the writers in this volume know it. Here, instead of Christmas, we get an empty house, the dry cleaners, a burn unit, a garden plot, an emergency animal hospital. The Kansas Department of Corrections and Osawatomie State Hospital. The rehabilitation center at Muskego and the Indian Arm fjord. All the places—often somber, often solitary, often static—in which we must wait the other 364 days a year." ~ from the Introduction by Kyle Minor
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Press 53 Open Awards Anthology
Release Date: November 2008
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Paperback, appx. 200 pp.
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SPRING/SUMMER 2009
Land of Amnesia, poems by Joseph Bathanti
Release Date: April 2009
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Paperback
Details coming soon...
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The Versus Anthology, edited by J. Dillon Woods
Release Date: 2009
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Paperback
This anthology of stories, poems, essays, plays, and hybrids is an exploration of scenarios in which two iconic and incompatible forces oppose one another. By clearly establishing the agon, the conflict between iconic figures, VS liberates writers (and readers) from conventional worries and grants authority to take writing in challenging and powerful directions. Early stories include the editor's own "Jesus vs. Thor," Susan Woodring's "Amelia Earhart vs. The Burbs," Pinckney Benedict's "Adolf Hitler vs. Grendel," and Kyle Minor's "Detroit Lions vs. Detroit Lions in Post-Apocolyptic Detroit." Other contributors include Alexander Chee, Christopher Costello, Okla Elliot, Danielle Girard, Jason Gray, Margaret McMullan, John McNally, Stacey Richter, Scott Sanders, Andrew Scott, Chad Simpson, Curtis Smith, Eric Spitznagel, and Brad Vice.
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FALL 2009
Parlous Angels, stories by Ed Southern
Details coming soon...
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Surreal South vol. II, edited by Pinckney and Laura Benedict
Details coming soon...
